Jerry Geis wrote:
All,
Over the weekend I purchased a linksys wireless-g PCI card for use in my amd64 box. I downloaded ndiswrapper, compiled, installed, tried to load the driver off the CDROM and it was a no-go.
I have do this on another box with an amd sempron. Difference being 32 bit versus 64 bit...
Seems there are no 64 bit drivers for the wireless card.
Anyone have a wireless card working on a 64 bit machine? What was the card and driver?
I've been noticing this more and more as I've been playing with new batches of 64-bit machines. Johnny seems to have hit the nail on the head when he mentioned something to the effect of "if you're doing straightforward vanilla server things, x86_64 works fine." Since I don't have any situations (currently) where I need all the extra address space (no big honking databases 'round here or machines with more than a few gigs of RAM), I think I'm just going to revert to the x86 32-bit build to keep my compatibility options open.
Did you ever get everything working satisfactorily on your athlon_64 notebook? Did you run the 32-bit or 64-bit version of CentOS?
Cheers,